Baby Name Poll

Yes to Josephine vs. No to Josephine

I really love this name and my husband likes it as well. My husband was talking with some family member and it slipped out that we were thinking of naming our baby girl Josephine. Now most of the ones that know dislike the name. One thing they keep telling me is it sounds like and old lady’s name. Old ladies start life as babies they don’t just pop 0ut of no where. Anyway what do you all think of the name.

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Emma in Western Australia

We have a boy named Tyler James and a girl named Gypsie Jade. Expecting our 3rd, which is a boy. I'm in love with the name Olly, but my partner thinks Gypsie and Olly are unique names and Tyler is not, so it won't feel right. So he wants an ordinary name. Please help with something unique but ordinary.

Baby Name Genie:

In the space between unique and ordinary is a special category of names I think of as "antiques." They are familiar and well-used names that are not widely in use these days. For your son, I give you Oscar Jude - a perfectly ordinary, unique name.